To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.

The happiest people are the most giving people

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.